Beaks Quotes

44 quotes by 42 authors

On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist,… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in… — Jack Handey
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. — Amy Lowell
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week,… — Dixon Lanier Merritt
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in… — Thomas Huxley
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman,… — Matt Lauer
The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. — Edward Abbey
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien
It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak. — Phyllis Diller
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — May Kendall
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there… — Felix Frankfurter
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over… — Paul Kantner
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office… — Ambrose Bierce
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for… — John of the Cross
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn… — Jeff Noon
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that… — Gary Yourofsky
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts… — Joey Santiago

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